Unfortunately, we live in some weird times these days and common sense is about as rare as an ARP 2500.
Tim Shoebridge, reviewing the Behringer 2500 synthesizer, a modular knock-off of the classic ARP.
Category: Thought
Auberon Herbert
Is the majority morally supreme, or are there moral rights and moral laws, independent of both majority and minority, to which, if the world is to be restful and happy, majority and minority must alike bow?
James Mill
Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.
Irving Kristol
Democratic socialism turns out to be an inherently unstable compound, a contradiction in terms. Every social-democratic party, once in power, soon finds itself choosing, at one point after another, between the socialist society it aspires to and the liberal society that lathered it.
Irving Kristol, as quoted in “Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: A Symposium,” edited by William Barrett, Commentary (1978).
Philip K. Dick
There is evil! It’s actual, like cement.
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962).
Theodore Sturgeon
Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic.
Theodore Sturgeon, More Than Human (1953).